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Mail-In Ballot Applications Rejected at High Rate

Mail-in ballot applications for the March 1 primary are being rejected by almost 40% — largely because of a missing ID number, which is now required after a new voting bill passed the Legislature last year.

A Merry Heart Required for Motherhood

As I write this on a frigid day in late January, the stock market is in the tank, the new strain of COVID is at an all-time high and the confidence in our government is lower than it was a year ago. OH ME! Yet, while reading my Bible at breakfast I happened on this verse from Proverbs 17:22. “A merry heart doeth good like medicine…” So I plan to share a dose of happy medicine with you today.

My COVID Thoughts

To The Editor: It is a reality that COVID-19, and/or the government’s response to the virus, have been devastating to life and liberty as we know it. We are experiencing the biggest push for mandatory experimental injections ever known in the United States and to western democracies.

What Big Lie?

To The Editor: I would like to ask Ms. Reid what is ‘the big lie’ she refers to in her recent letter? I have gotten confused by the ‘Steele dossier’, the ‘Russian collusion’ fiasco, and all the other false accusations and lies created by and promoted by Democrats in the past four years to block Trump’s agenda and get him out of the White House.

Radiogate Interesting Read

To The Editor: The “Radiogate” article by Andy Behlen in the Feb. 4 edition of the FCR was an interesting read.

Enhancing Elections

To The Editor: Hey John, (in regards to your letter last week) guess who’s the Dark Money leader this past couple of election cycles? Hint: it’s not the Republicans / GOP whom you wasted FCRs ink on blaming 16 times in your most recent ideologue diatribe. You seem even more divisive in your thinking than Biden-Pelosi-Schumer combined.

Interesting Contrast

To The Editor: Friday’s paper began with a front-page feature about Arnold Romberg, a prominent citizen well-known for his conservative politics. Mr.

COVID Confusion

To the Editor: An interesting feature of amateur hour with COVID-19 is the frequency with which statements strike suddenly missing scientific substantiation. On the pages of the Record, parties on opposite sides of the vaccine “debate” agree on an “incontrovertible” statement that “People who have had COVID have more natural immunity than the vaccines provide and do not benefit from vaccination” and neither party asserts a source for this misinformation.

That Little Voice

Birthdays are special celebrations, and should be treated as such. As I near my 80 years to celebrate being on this earth, I recall several unique birthdays, and my Mother’s favorite comment when I would reach a milestone year, as on my 40th or 50th or 60th.

H.L. Hunt, Poker Playing Billionaire

By the time their eighth child arrived on Feb.11, 1889, the Hunts were running out of names as well as room. The couple called the boy Haroldson Lafayette Jr., never dreaming he would prefer to go by his initials and someday would be the richest man in America.